Steven A. Certilman has represented emerging and established businesses, high-tech and low-tech, for more than twenty-five years. Mr. Certilman provides experienced counsel over a broad range of legal areas including corporate transactions and financings, contracting, real estate, intellectual property protection and commercial litigation. He has represented clients in more than one hundred fifty IT transactions and other matters since 1988 and chaired the Technology Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Association for three years.

In representation of general corporate clients, Mr. Certilman employs a Preventive Lawyering philosophy, which encourages clients to be proactive in planning to minimize their legal entanglements and maximize their advantages when difficulties arise. Mr. Certilman focuses on the special needs of emerging businesses and helps them to protect their financial and intellectual property resources, maximize security in business dealings, protect the personal assets of the principals, deal with human resource issues, obtain access to investment capital and use available legal resources to avoid or minimize problems which might otherwise lead to the distraction of conflict.

A firm supporter of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Mr. Certilman serves as a member of the National Panel of Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association on the commercial and technology panels, the commercial, trademark and technology panels of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, and the commercial and technology rosters of other major ADR providers worldwide.  He is also a member of numerous mediation panels including the Roster of Neutrals of the American Arbitration Association and serves as a mediator in ad hoc cases and for the U.S. District Court (Southern District of New York).  Mr. Certilman is a published author, speaker and instructor in the field of ADR and serves as a Magistrate and Trial Referee for the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut.

Mr. Certilman's c.v. is available here.  His hobbies include photography, travel and collecting art.

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